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Bridget Geraghty is the Senior Special Projects Attorney leading the launch of the National Parole Transformation Project. She has represented clients throughout all stages of the criminal legal system, from arrest and arraignment, to trial and appeal, to conditions of confinement and parole.
Bridget began her legal career as a trial level public defender in Richmond, Virginia. She then joined the Office of the State Appellate Defender in Illinois, where she represented clients challenging their criminal convictions on appeal. Before coming to the MacArthur Justice Center in 2022, she was a staff attorney at the Uptown People’s Law Center representing Illinois prisoners in federal civil rights cases and parole proceedings.
Bridget received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from the George Washington University Law School. Before law school, she was a high school teacher in Chicago.